autism

Areva Martin, founder and CEO of the non-profit “Special Needs Network, Inc.” joins California Live’s Jessica Vilchis to discuss her non-profit, raising a son with autism and the work that still needs to be done for the community.

For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released the new estimates of how common autism is. It estimates that 1 in 36 children who were age 8 in 2020 had autism. That’s up from 1 in...

As a 19-year-old living with Autism, Eric Hoffman faces plenty of challenges in life. The ability to show compassion, generosity, and kindness toward others is clearly not among them. Garvin Thomas has his story.

Rosie O’Donnell wrote that while anyone can “read as much as possible” about autism, it’s a spectrum, so it can be different for each person who has been diagnosed.